Community pharmacies have a critical role in helping patients suffering from Lyme or Lyme-like disease, or to use the Government’s preferred definition - Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks.Many of the patients are suspicious of the health profession after often…

Continuing with our blog series of investing in pharmacy, this time we will go into the offer and acceptance phase. In our next blog, we will go in depth about the due diligence phase.Before we start, let me be clear…

The Federal Court of Australia’s long-awaited judgment in the WorkPac appeal has found that the applicant (Mr Skene) was not a ‘casual employee’ for the purposes of the National Employment Standards (‘NES’) contained in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)…

The need to ensure people in the community gain maximum benefit from their medicines through adherence has seen WA pharmacist Hannah Mann and her team develop unique symbols to inform when and how medicines should be taken.Hannah, of Kimberley Pharmacy…

Opportunities for pharmacists to become involved in atrial fibrillation (AF) screening could help dramatically reduce the number of AF-related strokes, experts in the field say.AF is the most common arrhythmia and increases the risk of stroke five times with research…

Recipients of this year’s scholarships under the Pharmacy Guild’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Scholarship Scheme say the funding they receive will greatly help them in their studies to become pharmacists.The scheme provides incentives for Aboriginal and Torres Strait…